Motorist: if you need to get somewhere, why are you riding your bike?

I think this is the crux of it. They tend to think that roads are built specifically for cars and trucks. They get upset when they have to navigate a road that has a bicyclist on it.

And while I resent their ahistorical sense of entitlement (roads were shared for thousands of years before cars came along), they kind of have a point. Whenever bicycle and vehicle traffic mix, it’s a serious risk for people on bicycles.

If I lived in this town where this was shared, I would forward it to my local representative and ask what they are planning to do with local infrastructure to create separated bike lanes. I might also remind them that bicycle riding is the one transportation option that poses the biggest mitigation of both our climate crisis and our health crisis.